Monday, May 18, 2015

Over the years many witnesses
have seen an old lady--most often on the lower level. She appears so real that
many witnesses do not figure out they have seen a ghost until afterward.

It is said this ghost was the
eldest daughter of Chief Sealth--which through misspellings and
mispronunciations became “Seattle.”Her
Duwamish name was Kikisoblu but the early Anglo settlers in the area named her
Princess Angeline.

In 1855, the Treaty of Point
Elliot required the Duwamish leave their land for a reservation. Princess
Angeline ignored the order and stayed in Seattle.

She lived in a waterfront
shack where the market sits today. She survived by taking in laundry and
selling hand woven baskets along the street.

Princess Angeline's shack.
Photo: Edward Curtis

She was a well-known figure
in the city. She walked bent over with a cane. She always wore a handkerchief
on her head and a shawl around her shoulders.

Princess Angeline
Photo: Edward Curtis

One reason it is known what
she looked like is a young photographer at the time--Edward Curtis took many
pictures of her.

When Princess Angeline died
at the age of 84 in 1896 the citizens of Seattle gave her a big funeral. She
was buried in a casket that was made to look like a canoe.

Her ghost has haunted the
Market for decades. She appears so life like most witnesses at first are just
taken aback by the sight of this odd old woman.

In Leslie Rule’s book
entitled, Ghosts Among Us she tells a
story about one of her friends when she was a teen growing up in Seattle. Her
friends and her often rode the bus downtown and hung out in the market in the
1970s--this was when it was still a hippie hang out.

One day one of her friends went
to the Market alone, while there she saw a sight that upset her. She saw
an old woman she described as being a Native American.

This woman stared at her with
piercing eyes that sent a chill down her spine. She was extremely old,
toothless and wore a shawl. A smell of decay clung to her.

She muttered something, which
the teen could not understand. She told Rule later that she wondered if this
old lady was an evil witch that cast a spell on her. Rule’s friend was so
frightened she has never gone back to the market.

Several years later when Rule
heard other stories about Princess Angeline she wondered if this was the odd
lady her friend saw.

In recent years, one shop
owner on the lower level who sales beads saw an older woman dressed strangly in
her store looking at beads in the back. When she approached this woman to ask
if she needed assistance she disappeared.

She made inquiries and heard
the story about Princess Angeline’s ghost. She has continued to see her ghost
in her shop--she is now more comfortable with this sight. The owner states the
ghost always checks out her beads in the back--then she fades away.

One day the shop owner saw
her walk right through the back wall.

Most witnesses state the
Princess moves slowly. Some state she even glows--in shades of lavender, blue
and pink.

Other witnesses have seen a
young Native American boy walking with her. The shop owner of the bead store
has seen this ghost as well.

Lower levels where ghost has been seen.

It is said her ghost is felt
near a central wooden column in the lower level. This area is always cold and
several people who have taken pictures in this area have discovered anomalies
in their photos.In Part l of Seattle’s Pike’s Place Market the history of this historic market is shared.

Today this market is Seattle,
Washington’s most popular tourist attraction. It sits in an historic district
in downtown Seattle overlooking Puget Sound.

What most tourists are not
aware of is this market is one of Seattle’s most haunted. Locals and vendors openly
share tales about the ghosts that remain in the market.

Pike’s Place is in a rustic,
long multi-level building with uneven floors and wooden columns. Steps or
steep ramps take tourists from one level to the next.

Fresh produce and flowers.

Fish market.

The upper level or street
level is used to sell an impressive assortment of farm fresh fruits and
vegetables. In one corner of this level is the famous fish market where strong
young men throw or torpedo fish to paying customers.

The lower levels have vendors
and permanent stores that sell a variety of handmade goods and antiques. On any
given day over 600 vendors are selling at the market.

A public market has been
located on this 4-block boardwalk since 1907. The original vendors displayed
their wares in the open air. Seattle residents flocked to the spot in search of
fair priced food.

Market in 1911

By November of 1907 Frank
Goodwin, who became rich from Klondike Gold, built the first structure on the
spot.

In the 1930s, during the
Great Depression Pike Place Market still offered the freshest and cheapest food
in town. The market was still going strong during World War ll. But with more automobiles
and the creation of supermarkets Pike’s Place drastically declined.

In the 1970s the area was a
hippie hangout and was about to be torn down when a concerned architect led a
movement to “Save the market” campaign.

It worked, for local voters
approved the area as a 17-acre historic district and they undertook a
rehabilitation of the market. This decision needless to say was a lucrative
one.

View of Puget Sound from Market.

So Pike’s Market does not
need a haunting to draw tourists in but it has several resident ghosts. One is
a princess who has been seen many times over the years.In Part ll, Seattle’s Pike’s Place Market the story of the Market’s most well known ghost is shared.

Friday, March 27, 2015

In 1895 W. L. Bair opened his
modern pharmacy in the coastal town of Steilacoom Washington that sits on Puget
Sound.

Bair known as “Cub” to his
friends was a meticulous man. His store reflected his attention to detail. His
customers could buy medicine and hardware. Many customers ordered a refreshing treat
at his soda fountain.

Green River pop unmixed

Cub made sure that his store’s
potbelly stove was always stoked. This warm environment always welcomed his
cliental including a group of faithful retirees who played checkers in his
store.

When Cub died many felt he
had trouble giving up his beloved pharmacy for his spirit has haunted this
building ever since. People state his ghost still puts in a full day’s work.

When his old store was
converted to a café it is said Cub even tried to change with the times. But now
his attempt at perfection suffered.

The café’s new equipment
often stumped Cub. Employees would find bagels mysteriously burned and the café’s
new electrical equipment in the soda fountain was sometimes found broken.

This was just the beginning. Various
witnesses reported other strange happenings. One employee saw a group of sauce
bottles fly off a shelf. These bottles did not drop to the floor immediately
but instead flew across the room.

Café patrons report seeing
coffee pots spin and doors swing open. Almost everyone who enters the café state
the lights above sway back and forth.

Business today is called Bair Bistro

When a museum was added to
the café many felt this mellowed Cub’s ghost. They felt the familiar antiques,
such as medicine bottles, old hardware and a line of postal box slots attached
to the rear wall made Cub feel more at home.

The activity settled down to
the point that people began to believe Cub’s ghost had finally moved on. But
this does not appear to be the case.

As recent as 2005, people
standing near the postal boxes have felt someone standing close behind
them--only to discover no one there. Others have heard distinctive humming.

Several visitors state they felt
someone breathing down their necks and then the sound of someone wheezing. Cub’s
presence has also been felt in the bank next door.This old building is located at the intersection of Lafayette and Wilkes.

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Nathan Ziegler a principal at
Hope Academy in Minneapolis was visiting his hometown of Milton-Freewater,
Washington in the Walla Walla Valley with his wife this summer when he decided
to try out his new time-lapse camera.

Ziegler a camera enthusiast had
just bought himself a GoPro Hero 3.

Fuzzy Figure captured.

He likes to photograph
the valley’s beautiful sunsets so he chose Old
Pioneer Cemetery, which sits high on a hill outside of town. He knew he would
get a nice sweeping view from this hill.

Ziegler hiked a mile to reach this
cemetery on July 23rd--the town’s oldest graveyard. This cemetery is along the
Oregon Trail and the first graves are from 1868. It has a padlocked gate and is on private property today. The last time it was used for
burials was in the early 1940s.

He placed his new camera on a
tripod in front of a tombstone and started the 30-second time-lapse function at
8:13 p.m. He left it filming for 2 hours.

The following morning he downloaded
the pictures he captured to his laptop--so he could share them on his blog. At
first he did not notice anything strange. But when he was showing them to his
father-in-law he saw something that surprised him.

He noticed a strange shadowy
figure. He zoomed in to take a better look. It appeared at 9:08:30 p.m. and was
a fuzzy humanoid shape behind the tree in the frame. He couldn’t determine if it
was walking, leaning or standing still.

What makes this capture so
unusual is the figure isn’t in the frame taken 30-seconds before or in
the frame taken 30-seconds afterwards.

At 9:08:30 p.m.

Frame taken 30-seconds later

It appeared as if it
literally just dropped in and then disappeared.

Ziegler first placed the
photos on his Facebook page and asked for suggestions. Some felt it was an
insect, others suggested it was a limb that fell from the tree.

Zeigler and his
brother-in-law hiked back to the cemetery the next day on the 24th
but they found no limbs on the ground.

The two men checked to see
whether a person could have walked across the exposed frame in 30 seconds or
less. If a person was considerably closer to the camera in the foreground they could have but the
figure captured was behind the tree.

Zeigler set up his camera
once more but this time it revealed nothing.

News stations in Portland,
Spokane and Walla Walla all covered this story.

Here is an update by Zeigler
on his blog where he did further investigations the next day--the figure remains a mystery.

Here is a nice short video Zeigler did
showing the figure only appeared in one frame.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

E. R. Butterworth was a
furniture maker in Seattle, Washington in the early 1900s. At this time there
were many deaths in Seattle because of fast spreading diseases and frequent
mine accidents. Butterworth ended up making more coffins than furniture. By
1903 he realized that death was a booming industry. So he opened up Butterworth’s
and Sons mortuary. His mortuary was located in what was to become the E.R.
Butterworth building. This building still stands today and Kells' Irish Pub
occupies the basement where the mortuary once was. Not surprising this pub is
considered haunted.

Butterworth mortuary provided
a chapel, a crematorium, and a morgue where autopsies and embalmings were performed.
Some feel this space is haunted today because of Butterworth’s unethical and
corrupt practices. There were so many deaths in Seattle the bodies literally stacked up. To alleviate this problem the city paid it’s
citizens $50 to bring the deceased to Butterworth’s mortuary. Butterworth
collected half this amount and prepared these bodies for burial.

It seems collecting these generous
fees was not enough for Butterworth because he became greedier. He started to have people killed. At this point in history people did not concern themselves overly with the cause of
death and the fact that Butterworth cremated these bodies destroying the
evidence immediately allowed him to continue
this practice for some time. Later, it was rumored that Butterworth had an
accomplice.

Dr. Linda Hazzard performed
extreme treatments on her patients in order to supposedly cure them. She
basically staved them to death. * Hazzard was caught and convicted of murder for
one such case. She served two years in prison and then moved to New Zealand
with her husband where she continued to practice medicine. Butterfield’s handled
the cremation of several of her former patients—hence the rumored connection.

The Butterworth and Sons
mortuary was in business from 1903 until 1923. When the owner and manager of Kells
Irish Pub started renovating the building they quickly became aware something
odd was going on. One workman that performed a demolition on an upper floor took pictures to show them the progress being made on the renovation.
In one of these photos something unexpected appeared. This workman had captured a man
who was deathly pale, with very dark gaping eyes. But what was most unusual was the
man’s mouth was sewn shut with thread. At this point the owner looked into the history of the building.

People at Kells' today feel that many
of the souls of Butterworth’s victims are making their presence known. Glasses
are pushed off the bar without apparent cause and dirty handprints are
discovered on the windows after they are cleaned. The spirit of a little girl without legs is sometimes seen playing by an unused staircase. At one point a large wall mirror fell and broke in a room that was unoccupied. It oddly fell to the floor in neat, clean edged pieces. The activity in the pub seems
to be most active in the month of November. It is believed this is because in
November of 1918 Seattle residents were dying in droves from the Spanish
influenza. People at the time wore surgical masks in order to avoid becoming
ill.

* Two sisters, Claire and Dorothea Williamson were both victims of Dr. Hazzard. Claire had already been cremated at the time of Hazzard's trail but her sister Dorothea who died later was still skin and bone.

The following link is a news story
about the pub and it shows the photo that was taken by the workman on the
demolition crew. The manager and the owner are interviewed. The television
show Ghost Adventures with the Constantinos are highlighted as well.New story about ghosts at Kell's Pub